Due to loosing sight, I've been interested in incorporating Emacs, Emacspeak, Festival (voice engine and voices) into Puppy. I don't know that this needs X, but it works with it.

I've gotten Emacs and Emacspeak to work, and I've downloaded the Festival.pup - but there is an additional driver needed to allow Emacspeak to drive the Festival screen reader engine. I've not found out how to do this.

I went out of X to the command line and ran emacspeak, and lo and behold, it came up outside of X, but revealed the error - "no driver found for Festival" - which seems to say that a blind person could run a command line Puppy - which is perfect for the blind.

If anyone wants to tackle a "Seeing Eye Puppy" for the blind and visually impaired, it would be such a wonderful thing - especially because without X, it would work on a really "slim" computer, and with Puppy, it would work on a fairly slim computer (with enough RAM to run X).

I found a fairly simple program for running commands using the voice. It's called cvoicecontrol. I don't have a .pet for it but you can get a Slackware package for it here:
http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/amigolinux/download/Utils/cvoicecontrol-0.9/cvoicecontrol-0.9-i486-1.tgz

I'm using 3.01 right now. It would be amazing if someone could do the command line puppy with speech - that would mean that even a 486 with small ram could get on internet, read mail using a text or even telnet etc. If your blackness blind, you don't need an X server.

Sadly this was last released in 2004
but might offer some tips . . . Talking Linux for the Blind
http://www.ipsis.hr/gls/_________________Puppy WIKILast edited by Lobster on Mon 20 Oct 2008, 02:20; edited 1 time in total

I mentioned the ORCA screen reader above - it is really good - but it is very complicated to use. The easiest desktop to navigate is the "SPEAKEASY" desktop. The EMACSPEAK desktop is the most capable - but the commands are very very very complicated.

See my post above that mentions the ORCA iso - and below it I mention a simple screen - this is what has to be done.

It gives the new user a list to "tab down" or try different positions on the screen to find with a mouse.

One word command scripts should also be provided so the user can just type. web mail mp3 read edit radio skype icq.

Each command can go to the "next step" - like enter URL (must be spaced to speak it as U R L" otherwise it says EARL. Or for "mail" "press one for get mail" "press two for compose mail"

That's the way it has to go - maybe with the option of using X for Opera or Firefox - both can magnify text and pictures for poor sighted.

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